CofEe Club 36 – The evolution of the PMO The 36th Centre of Excellence meeting was held at Aviva’s headquarters in St Helen’s, Undershaft and had as its theme The evolution of the PMO. The value a PMO brings to an organisation tends to be viewed differently depending on its function and positional perspective. This[…]
Dates: 23rd October 2014 Venue: Home Office, London The topic for the 35th meeting of CITI’s centres of excellence club (CofEe) was – Agile in the P3 environment: reviewing the key features of Agile development and examining whether they can be usefully extended, applied or find parallels in project, programme and portfolio management. The day[…]
Dates: 24th April 2014 Venue: Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham The topic for the day was – Centres of Excellence – What’s working, what’s not? The day began with an introduction from Kevin outlining some of the special considerations we all needed to adhere to as a consequence of working on this special site. (At[…]
Dates: 26 September 2013 Venue: John Lewis Partnership, London The topic for the day was Defining, achieving and measuring success in change. Chris shared a short video on John Lewis Partnership’s unique history and values before speaking about their requirement to modernise the organisation in response to changing technology markets. Through collaboration and the development[…]
Dates: 27th June 2013 Venue: FCA The topic for the day was Capability and Capacity, members engaged in lively discussions on how best to develop professional change communities to meet the demands of their change portfolios. John described the FCA’s assessment and development approach, managed through evidence gathered in their day-to-day project work. Performance improvement[…]
Dates: 20th March 2013 Venue: BBC in London The topic for the meeting is Linking strategy to business-as-usual with a particular focus on the development and management of the business’ operating model. In ‘Business Architecture – a practical guide’ (2012), Whelan and Meaden describe business architecture as: A discipline devoted to shaping, articulating and guiding[…]
Dates: 26 October 2012 Venue: BAA, Heathrow The twenty-eighth meeting of the Centres of Excellence Club (CofEe Club) will be hosted by BAA, at their offices in Heathrow on the 26th October 2012. The topic for the day is Change assurance. It was as long ago as 1513 that Machiavelli pointed out that achieving change[…]
Dates: 20 July 2012 Venue: The twenty-seventh meeting of the Centres of Excellence Club (CofEe Club) was hosted by BG Group Group, at their offices in Reading. Most organisations sit with a challenge: they are constantly under pressure to change – either to become more competitive or to become more efficient – but to do[…]
Dates: 26th April 2012 Venue: The twenty-sixth meeting of the Centres of Excellence Club (CofEe Club) was hosted by M&G Investments Group, at their offices in London. The topic for the meeting was Sponsorship of managed change. Active and visible executive sponsorship has been identified as the top contributor to change success, while ineffective change[…]
Dates: 16 February 2012 Venue: The twenty-fourth meeting of CITI’s Centres of Excellence Club was hosted by EC Harris at their London offices on 16th February 2012. The topic for the day was Translating strategy into successful change with members addressing how best to make effective strategic change. Christopher Worsley, CofEe Club Chairman, completed the[…]